gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
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commit 8140bf9f1abd2431ff240657337364a5adcfbea7
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Sep 18 05:07:49 2026 -0500
ChangeLog: Clarify and fix typos in old entries.
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ChangeLog | 19 ++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 287dd11d3..1e1bd6733 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
* src/preproc/tbl/table.cpp (table::init_output): Emit
argumentless `ti` request to cancel any temporary indentation,
- just as we do with right-alignment and centering. Placing an
+ just as we do with right-alignment and centering. Placing a
`ti` request with no argument (a syntax newly meaningful in
groff 1.25) was causing a spurious warning in category "style".)
@@ -52,9 +52,14 @@
excessive memory allocation arising from corrupt index file,
rousing the wrath of the Linux OOM process killer or similar.
Check index file's claimed length of common word list for an
- implausibly large value. Pick 10,000, which I'm sure is still a
+ implausibly large value. Pick 10,000, which I'm sure is a
pretty implausible size of a list of _common_ words to any
- linguist.
+ linguist. (The average English speaker is said to have a
+ _total_ vocabulary of about 20,000 words, and almost all common
+ words--in English, anyway--arise from a tiny closed class of
+ words used for simple quantification or grammatical structure,
+ such as articles, indefinite adjectives, pronouns, and
+ prepositions.)
Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68685>. Thanks to
Pavol Sloboda for the report and analysis. Problem dates back
@@ -81,8 +86,8 @@
* src/libs/libbib/index.cpp
(index_search_item::get_invalidity_reason): Check index of file
name for nonsense (nonpositive) value, and reject it if has one.
- This prevents us from an out-of-bounds read of the
- {memory-mapped} index file.
+ This prevents an out-of-bounds read of the {memory-mapped} index
+ file.
Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68682> (1/2). Thanks to
Pavol Sloboda for the report and analysis. Problem dates back
@@ -164,8 +169,8 @@
* src/libs/libbib/index.cpp (index_search_item::check_header):
Check more header data for nonsense, as they can influence the
size of memory allocations. Invalidate index file if its
- maximum or minimum key lengths, or common word list length
- threshold is nonpositive.
+ maximum or minimum key lengths, or the common word list length
+ threshold, is nonpositive.
Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68679>. Thanks to Pavol
Sloboda for the report. Problem dates back to groff's birth.
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